Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)

“Transcendence, huh...” Gazing at the incinerated cultivation insights, the mastermind couldn’t help but recall the primordial and ancient eras.

After achieving Transcendence, his very existence transcended karma. His words and deeds were beyond karma, leaving him unbound and unfettered. No one could perceive his presence, allowing him to do as he pleased. He could take on countless forms, experiencing the various facets of life.

For example, he could become a tribe’s chieftain and rule for centuries, annexing other tribes and leading the tribe to greatness. He could also become a rogue cultivator, calling upon friends to drink and revel, and live carefree for a thousand years.

Once he had experienced enough and grown tired of it, he would vanish, and everything he had done would be corrected by the world.

In that tribe’s collective memory, the chieftain would be someone else. Among the rogue cultivator’s friends, none would remember him. Events that had occurred would have other explanations.

He had numerous wives and concubines and sired children, yet never had to bear any responsibility for his actions. He was lawless and could indulge all his desires and commit every evil without ever having to answer for any of it.

“This is a true immortal—bound by nothing.”

Even when he learned that the Five Ancient Immortals had achieved immortality one after another, he hadn’t taken it seriously. So what if they became immortals? He believed they would eventually attain Transcendence just as he had. He was untouched by karma, and his existence wouldn’t affect cultivators of later generations seeking Transcendence.

But never had he imagined that there was more than one path beyond immortality. Apart from Transcendence, there was also Omniscience.

To avoid any impact on himself, he ambushed the Everlasting Immortal Fairy during her breakthrough. He had assumed that things would be as usual, with his deeds untouched by karma and the world forgetting the Everlasting Immortal Fairy.

For ordinary immortals, he could remain untouched by example. For instance, during the Ember Legacy Dynasty, when he assassinated the Epoch Immortal, the Qilin Immortal’s mind spontaneously produced a memory of himself killing the Epoch Immortal. This was the result of him grating the karma he generated onto the Qilin Immortal.

But his target had been the Everlasting Immortal Fairy.

It was only long after that incident that the mastermind finally figured it out. The Everlasting Immortal Fairy had been Half-Step Omniscient, and her karma was too strong to be fully erased. As such, the world forgot her, but the Four Ancient Immortals didn’t forget her completely.

“I wasn’t very familiar with the Omniscience realm then.” The mastermind sighed. After all, it was a domain I had never encountered. Had I been more knowledgeable, I would have used a different method against the Everlasting Immortal Fairy and not such a crude approach.

Four hundred thousand years have passed. I now understand the Omniscient realm well enough. No one in this era will advance to Transcendence and expose my identity.

“That kid Lu Yang is entangled in karma, and his every action impacts the world, but the Origin-Tracing Incipient Dao Fruit severs karma, so he cannot achieve Omniscience. Even though the Everlasting Immortal Fairy possesses the Everlasting Dao Fruit and has experienced breaking through once, I interrupted that attempt. Most of the accumulated karma had also dispersed as the world’s memory of her faded away.”

“Since her resurrection, she has clung to Lu Yang’s mental space, and the karma generated during this period has transferred to Lu Yang, so she also can’t achieve Omniscience.”

Naturally, I can’t achieve Omniscience either. I’m already walking on the path of Transcendence. To become Omniscient, one has to abandon their cultivation and start all over.

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After the four returned to the villa, several days passed before they realized the spirit qi from the cave abode had ushered the Blue Planet into an era of spirit qi revival.

A higher-up had sought out Xia He, saying a mysterious energy had recently appeared. According to the Zhengyi Sect, the Dragon Tiger Mountain, and other renowned orthodox sects, this energy was called “spirit qi.”

It could be cultivated to grant people immunity to all poisons and cure all illnesses, which meant Xia He’s condition could be treatable.

“That’s good,” Xia He said flatly, hardly showing any reaction.

She guessed the other party’s purpose wasn’t just to deliver the good news but also to meet Lu Yang. Given Lu Yang’s special status on the Blue Planet and the fact that he had once ruled over it, his prestige was even greater than Xia He. Meeting the Blue Planet’s current leadership might be awkward, so Lu Yang didn’t show himself.

The higher-up’s attention was unwittingly drawn to a plate of sliced fruit on the table. Normally, at such high-level meetings, a fruit platter was merely decoration, but he couldn’t help but find this unusually “fragrant.” It wasn’t the aroma of food, but more like a yearning from the depths of his soul.

He ate a piece of peach with a toothpick and was surprised to feel his entire body become incredibly invigorated and light. His various age-related ailments had healed themselves. Is this fruit brought by General Lu?

This reminded him of the longevity peaches in the legends. The Zhengyi Sect’s celestial master had once mentioned that legendary treasures weren’t necessarily mere myths—they had once existed. However, when the vipralopa era arrived, those rare treasures had simply vanished.

Elder Xia can’t possibly be unaware of the effects of such fruits. If she could eat a fruit like this, is she truly still at death’s door?

Only after the Blue Planet higher-up left did Lu Yang appear. “I didn’t expect the Zhengyi Sect to know about spirit qi. They probably obtained some ancient texts,” he remarked with a smile. The revival of spirit qi was definitely a good thing for the Blue Planet. He had originally planned to build a spatial gate between the Cultivation World and the Blue Planet, but looking at the Blue Planet’s current state, he reckoned it might be better to let it develop on its own for a while.

“I’ll give the Blue Planet a push,” Lu Yang said. The restoration of spirit qi had just begun. Everyone was at the same starting line, including the authorities. Many problems might arise during this period.

Cultivators were manageable; their low cultivation levels meant they wouldn’t cause much of a commotion. The real problem was the spirit treasures scattered across the land.

They were undoubtedly deadly weapons that the authorities couldn’t handle with their existing capabilities. Lu Yang decided to stay in his hometown for a while and help the Blue Planet tide over this initial phase.

“What are you planning to do? Do you need me to do anything?” Xia He asked.

“Write down the basic principles of spirit qi usage and methods for testing spirit roots. Once you’re done with that, pass them to the leadership.” Then Lu Yang produced the heretical monk Banbu’s storage ring. “Let’s add some more spirit qi to the Blue Planet.”

A veteran Transcendent Tribulation cultivator’s storage ring contained a considerable number of spirit stones. Lu Yang forcibly erased the seal, took out piles of spirit stones, crushed them to dust, and released the spirit qi, making the Blue Planet’s spirit qi even denser.

“Wow, so many spirit stones.” Bai Shuang’s eyes sparkled at the sight of them. Since coming into contact with spirit qi, she realized how miserable her life had been. Despite being an innate living being, I couldn’t even bring out a ten-thousandth of my kind’s power. I’m such a disgrace to innate living beings.

“Why have they all dispersed?” Bai Shuang watched the spirit qi drift away, unable to tear her eyes away.

“With me here, how could you lack spirit stones, Bai-jiejie?” Lu Yang teased, producing piles of top-grade spirit stones from his identity jade tablet. Compared to the Everlasting Immortal Fairy, he was destitute, but compared to Transcendent Tribulation cultivators, he was wealthy enough to make them green with envy.

“From now on, I’ll cover all of Bai-jiejie’s cultivation resources.”

Bai Shuang had never known that being “kept” and having a “sugar daddy” could be such a blissful thing.